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" Thus the jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most efficacious means of teaching it how to rule well. "
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

Akhil Reed Amar - Law - 1998 - 448 pages
...jury, citizens would learn self-government by doing self-government. In Tocqueville's memorable phrase, "the jury, which is the most energetic means of making the people rule, is also the most etficacious means of teaching it how to rule well."38 In 1788, the AntiFederalist Maryland Farmer noted...
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - History - 2003 - 868 pages
...privileges. It is especially by means of the jury in civil causes, that the American magistrates imbue even the lower classes of society with the spirit of their...efficacious means of teaching it how to rule well. "' The Federal judges act alone upon almost all the questions most important to the government of the country....
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 2003 - 758 pages
...It is more especially by means of the jury in civil causes that the American magistrates imbue all classes of society with the spirit of their profession....is also the most efficacious means of teaching it to rule well. CHAPTER XVII. PRINCIPAL CAUSES WHICH TEND To MAINTAIN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IN THE...
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